Re: generic oversight?


<ricky.clarkson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Mike,
>
> For this (and other) reasons I implemented my own collection wrappers,
> which wrap Collection, List, etc., but have more sane API, including
> contains(T). This isn't currently public, because I'm lazy, but it
> could be.
>
> You can either suggest that it should be public, which might kickstart
> me to making it so, or implement your own. However, I doubt Sun will,
> because they're afraid to stop old code from compiling.
>

Thanks Ricky, it's enough to know I'm not going mad and missed something.
I'm aware now to not assume a class I know is Generified is not necessarily
completely so.
Would be a nice feature for serious use though.

--
Mike W


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